Picking up where I left off in part I, it was decided that I would hunt with derbyacresbob (Bob Morris) and Dogboy (Ken Holtz). I had really been looking forward to this, because I have been reading their posts for a long time and seeing how well they know how to hunt the desert that is compelely foriegn to me. These guys kill more in a month on their home ground than I kill in a year. Not only that, Bob is GREAT with a camera, and they were great to hang around with.

Ken kept me stocked in trail mix and beef jerky, and with the company I couldn't ask for much more.

We left out early, and just when we got to a spot that looked really good, we say a vehicle parked on the right side of the road with 2 huge men with ARs standing beside it. This turned out to be Big George Ackley and Murph. They were quite a bit bigger than use, so we decided to go back down the road a ways and try the other side. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

This spot looked promising too, but nothing showed. Bob supplied the pictures.



Ken was down below in the flat with the scatter gun.

We kept heading north, and tried a few more areas but nothing was working. We moved into a large flat that had a huge canyon in it that you couldn't see until you were right up to it.





We did see on coyote run across in front of the truck in this area, but still had no luck. On the way out we say a red truck and I though I recognized the driver, but wasn't sure. It turned out to be Richard Cruise that was checking out the head of the canyon where he had killed a cat last year.

We moved on to find more ground. On our 10 stand, we were at the base of a big hill that Bob and I wanted to hunt over the top of, but Ken wanted to hunt around the pond at the bottom, we split up and Bob and I went hight, and Ken went low.

When Bob and I got to the top, we found a Indian rock pile.



It dropped off sharp over the top, and we found a perfect place to sit on a big rock next to a juniper.


This was our view.

We could see a mile off, and I commented to Bob that it didn't look like there could be a coyote within a mile of us. This showed how much I knew, because 2 minutes into lightning jack, I spotted a coyote just 60 yards below us and charging the call hard. I turned to let Bob know he was coming so he could take pictures. He did a better job taking pictures than I did of shooting. When I turned back and found the coyote in the scope, he was already hitting the brakes and turning around. I finally took a running shot (about 40 yards) as he ducked behind the cactus and stuff.







I missed just after this picture. He was moving a lot faster than he looks, and he went behind the cactus and a few more to the left

After the miss, I figured I would get another shot and jumped up to see where he went. To my surprise, he had disappered. I ran and jumped up on a waist high rock for a better look and strained to see where he went. Then Bob spotted him high tailing about 300 yards away.

I came and sat back down, and we kept calling. About 3 or 4 minutes later, we heard a shot. It sounded like it was in front of us, and not Ken behind us, but we were not sure because of the wind. We gave it another 15 minutes and headed back down the hill to the truck.

When we topped the hill, we could see that Onefoot and knock'emdown had showed up.

When we got to the bottom of the hill, we found out that knock'emdown had shot at my coyote after he ran over the hill. He didn't get him either, but they said they did see some lion tracks in the area. They also said we might want to turn around because the road was bad steep and we didn't have all that long until dark.

So we turned around and started back toward the casino.

I spotted a little hill beside the road that Crapshoot and I had called last year, and also heard some howling. I talked Ken into giving it a try and we set up must a hundred yards or so from truck just over the hill. Same thing as before.



Here is our view over Ken's head.

You could see a country mile, and at 2 minutes Bob spots a coyote coming hard through the weeds and pointed him out to me. I got him in the scope, but he was covering ground quick and it was hard to follow him in the weeds. I was trying to get Bob to mute the call, but he was taking the pictures.




He wasn't stopping and he had just about passed me by. I "wolfed" and only checked up slightly.




Then BOOM! Dogboy rolled him with the Mossberg and load of 3 inch T Dead Coyote. Flatter thana pancake!



I wanted to get another stand or 2 on the way back since we were on a roll, but elders (and betters) though we better head back to meet and greet (and not miss the eats. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

By the time we got back to the casino and changed our clothes, people were starting to gather, and we headed off to the pavillion to meet the others and get a bite to eat.

Sure enough, it had been Richard Cruise that we had seen earlier, and we saw some new and old faces.



Dogboy, Richard Cruise, Dan [beeep] and Phillip Jones



James and Sandra Lindley were handing out the name badges and raffle tickets, as well as registering people who didn't pre-register



Bearmanric, derbyacresbob, Redfrog, Travis Lindley and Sean Martin getting their name badges and tickets.



bearmanric, Dtech, lildtech, and RagnCajn all socializing.



MJM, genisis, and Onefoot



Mrs. Kyhunter, Kyhunter, and RagnCajn



George Ackley, knock'emdown, and Murph

Supper.


bearmanric, Yellowhammer, Redfrog, and yotenighthunter



sw_Sniper and Arizona Moose



RanUtah, genisis, and jimanaz. I had to delete the picture where Larry had that dumb look on his face. Is this one better? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />



knock'emdown, Dtech, Rustydog, and Don Estabrooks.


Murph, Geogrge Ackley, and MJM.




CatDaddyCold, Azcowboy76 (Clint Martin) and RagnCajn.


Venatic (David Stroud), Dtech, and Richard Cruise.

Dogboy and jimanaz brought in their kills so MJM could do little skinning demo.







genisis, Rustydog, Kyhunter, Billy Leal and Songdog1 (Roland Leong) stand by watching the skinning demo.

Then about 9 o'clock it was back to Redfrog's room



Dan [beeep], Dogboy, and Phillip Jones



Tip Goldston, yotenighthunter, derbyacresbob, and lildtech.

Part 3 will be the events of Friday and Friday night.

WOW!
Those action shots of the coyotes coming in are simply AWESOME!

The coyote shots are great!

It scares me to think that maybe I do really have a stupid look on my face ALL the time.
I used to think it was just poor timing.
Thanks for deleting that one though. It was over the top.

Luckily, I was taking the pictures, so my "dumb look" didn't get caught on camera much.

genesis - you almost never look goofy .... well no goofier that most cowboys from ...... ..... Texas anyways ..... ..... now thats funny right there, I don't care who you are, that there was funny. ... at least for Larry

I got a picture cd from Bob in today's mail, and he had some pictures I hadn't seen.

Bob took some fantastic pictures, and I just had to add a couple to the hunt part at the top (two stand pics and a live action coyote pic)

Bob- thanks for the pictures! They were great.

Thanks for the support Michael!
Those are some impressive pictures that you added in!!!
Keep 'em comin'